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Speaker 5: It's Nicole Atkins on the Rock and Roll History Show.

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Speaker 6: Hey. Everyone, welcome back to the Rock and Roll History

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Show on Hudson River Radio. I'm Brian Horowitz. If you're

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here this week, that means you've made it through last

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week's dark and depressing songs. So we're gonna do our

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best to cheer you up with some optimistic and happy

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tunes tonight. Let's see how it goes. As always, allow

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me to introduce all the cranbones joining us here tonight,

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First and foremost from the Richter Observatory. He was really

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mad early here today. He went through the drive through,

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ordered two large fries and he got like sixty small

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ones instead. Neil Richter is here.

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Speaker 4: I hate when that happens, right.

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Speaker 1: And you want us to be optimistic after that?

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Speaker 7: I know? Right?

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Speaker 6: Well? We all need yeah good to have you back

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from paranormally yours. She heard you should dress for the

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job you want not the job you have, So she

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dressed up as Batman. Dale Nukam is here.

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Speaker 8: I can't believe I didn't get fired.

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Speaker 6: Don't jump out the window. You're not qualified yet.

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Speaker 8: Not only that, things get so aggravating at my job

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that I have wanted to jump out the window, but

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I'm only on the second floor, so I probably would

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break an ankle or something.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and they'd bring you back in. They drop off

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a laptop at the emergency room for you. Yeah. Yeah,

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pretty much. And the host of the Silver Screen she

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saw a panda walk into a bar, guzzle a beer,

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eat a bunch of pretzels, then took out a pistol

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and boom fires into the air. Then it takes off running.

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The bartender goes out, hey, what are you doing. The

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panda says, I'm a panda. Google me, So the bartender

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google's panda, and sure enough it says pandas are black

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white and eats, shoots and leaves. Mercedes kent.

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Speaker 9: That was Did you know that it's National Beer Day?

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Speaker 6: I did not. Yes, we're recording on Monday, so apparently

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it's National Beer Day. I did not get the memory,

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did not get the medal. I will have two on Friday.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, according to me a long time ago,

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every day was beard day, and on Sunday you get

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too nice good.

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Speaker 6: It is written, have two.

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Speaker 10: That's right, all right.

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Speaker 6: Last, but the host of shaving cream. She wants to

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know how noisy it would be if centipedes wore tiny

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little flip flops. Barbara Ville was back.

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Speaker 1: Actually, in my head, I know exactly how noisy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, people wearing two flip flops. That sound is annoying.

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I can't imagine a hundred of them.

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Speaker 1: And I could never be batman because I look horrible

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on tight.

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Speaker 6: I think, if you're going to be a successful batman,

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you kind of don't want to be seen, and the

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cage just seems so impractical.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be seen on a good day.

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Speaker 8: Well, I want one of those little batman hats they

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have for cats, because I keep seeing those all over

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social media, and I just know Sebastian would look wonderful.

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Speaker 1: You want a kitty cowl? Yes, kitty cowl?

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Speaker 8: Okay, okay, I mean all right, I mean he played

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a sheep in the church Christmas pageant last year?

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Speaker 7: Why not?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 6: The master of disguise feeling this by next week. Sorry,

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I have a feeling we're going to be seeing that

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by next week. Okay, body, yeah, all right? So shall

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we try to cheer everybody up this week and make

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up for last year?

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Speaker 10: Yes?

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Speaker 6: All right. So the cheeriist person of this bunch is Barbara,

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so she's going to lead us off this week. So

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take it away.

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Speaker 1: If you say, sophiarless leader. Here I go. All right.

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My optimistic song choice is called Let's Have Another Cup

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of Coffee. It was composed by Irving Berlin in nineteen

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thirty two. Born May eleventh, eighteen eighty eight. He's the

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recipient of a Grammy Tony An Academy Award, as well

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as the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Gerald Ford.

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He was known for composing numerous international hits. However, somebody's

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gonna have to help me with the logistics of this,

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because as a non musical person, I didn't quite get it. However,

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for a large part of his career he could not

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read sheet music, and playing piano, he had a custom

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one built with a transposing lever where he needed to

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play in keys other than F sharp. Did anybody want

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a weigh in and tell me about that? I know

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a few people I wish had that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you could you instead. You know, if he's

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playing in F sharp, he's probably just playing the black keys.

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actually slide the whole mechanism inside the piano, so you'd

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hit the same key on the piano, it would play

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a different note, so we'd slide everything up and down.

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Speaker 9: Don't you still have to read notes to do that

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to know when the F sharp comes up?

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Speaker 6: I'm guessing he learned at some point. Sounds like it.

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He kind of had a little bit of success.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's known for such hit such hits like Alexander's

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Ragtime Band, Blue Skies, also an optimistic song, Easter Parade

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and White Christmas. Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee was

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written in nineteen thirty two during the Depression, and featured

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and was featured in the musical comedy Face the Music

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in a scene that takes place in an automat. Anybody

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know what that is?

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Speaker 6: That's like the pre made food in a locker kind

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of thing, right.

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Speaker 4: I only went horn and hardart.

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Speaker 8: I only went to one once. My brother grew up

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in somewhere in the city. I forget where, and he

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took me to one.

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Speaker 6: Once I understand they were actually good, right, they actually

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made everything.

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Speaker 1: And they made they made. They had kitchens behind the

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scenes where they.

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Speaker 6: So it wasn't like a you know, you weren't opening

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a microwave door and taking out your No.

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Speaker 9: No, no, it wasn't like a vending machine.

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Speaker 1: Right, No, it wasn't like a vending machine.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they filled that from behind.

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Speaker 11: Right.

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Speaker 6: I got a post office kind of thing door.

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Speaker 4: And you know nickels, and I think, you know, you

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dropped them and whatever it was you had Nichols, I think.

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Speaker 6: Is see now we have to explain what nichols are.

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Speaker 9: But wait, speaking of vending machines, you know what they

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have in Japan that is absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: They have pretty much everything design her handbags and things

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like that. The gotcha's right.

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Speaker 9: They have Yeah, they have vending machines with corn soup

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and it is amazing.

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Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 8: They also have ones. They have ones with pizza in

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it too, very all different, almost anything you can imagine

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Speaker 1: H Yeah, there's these girls that do these TikTok videos

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on the vending machines in Japan, and I'm like addicted

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to those.

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Speaker 9: It was the soup that blew me away. Though my

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host was like, no, you have to try this. It's

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really good.

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Speaker 1: Wow, awesome, Okay, all right. So in this musical comedy Face,

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the music in the automat the song Let's have Another

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cup of Coffee was performed by a group of people that,

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according to the storyline, were previously financially comfortable, but have

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now lost their fortunes and are hoping for better times.

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So let's listen to this regnition made popular by Fred

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Waring and his Pennsylvanians, and afterwards we'll talk more about that.

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Speaker 12: Just around the corner, there's a rainbow in the sky,

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so let's have another cup of coffee, and let's have

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another piece of pie. Troubles like a bubble, and the

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clouds will soon roll by, So let's have another cup

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of coffee, and let's have another piece of pie. Let

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us smile, be your umbrella, or it's just an abro shaller.

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Even John d rock a fellow, is looking for the

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silver lion, and mister Herbert Hoover says it now's the

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time to buy. So let's have another cup of coffee,

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and let's have another piece of pie.

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Speaker 13: Around the corner and the rainbow in the sky. So

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let's have another cup of coffee and let's.

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Speaker 14: Have another pizza pie Ooble charge Babo on the Cloudmasoon

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roll by.

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Speaker 2: So let's have another cup of coffee and let's have

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another pizza.

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Speaker 14: Part Nasa filey your umbrella or.

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Speaker 2: A just an Abel shower.

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Speaker 13: Even John g Rock Upbella is looking for.

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Speaker 15: The silver lighting.

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Speaker 12: Mister Herbert Hoover, there's another time dubi.

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Speaker 1: Hey. Fred Wearing born Frederick Malcolm Wearing Senior on June ninth,

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nineteen hundred was an American bandleader, musician, and radio and

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television personality. He was known as the man who taught

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America to sing. Although his major at Penn State was

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architectural engineering, he was rejected multiple times trying out for

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the school glee club. However, he had formed a banjo

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orchestra that became so successful he decided to quit school

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and go on tour with the band.

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Speaker 6: Ah, I thought you were going to say that they

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led him into the glee club so they could disband.

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Speaker 4: That'll teach him a lesson.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, So the band became known as Fred Wearing

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and his Pennsylvanians. They were popular recording artists from nineteen

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twenty three to nineteen thirty two for Victor Records. They

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went on to radio performances and the occasional musical Wearing

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later added male vocalists and began to entertain troops during

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World War Two. During the nineteen forties and fifties, he

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returned to the studio and achieved much success in recording,

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and he expanded to television and had his own show,

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where he eventually added popular music to his repertoire. In

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the nineteen thirties, he financed the first blender for public

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use by inventor Frederick jacob Osius trying to type that

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my autocorrect was not having it. A patent was granted

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in nineteen thirty seven and was called the Miracle Mixer

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and later the Wearing Blender. It was introduced to the

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public at the National Restaurant Show in Chicago. The blunder

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gained importance for its use in hospitals for patients with

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certain dietary restrictions, and Jonas Salk used it in his

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research for the polio vaccine. And it is for this

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reason I have chosen this rendition of this song for

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my optimistic song. If you're fortunate enough to have good fortune,

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always try to make a beneficial contribution to society somehow,

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because we should always use our powers for good and

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spread the optimism for all of us.

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Speaker 6: Nice. I'm into that. Yeah, I am absolutely down with

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the advice of having another cup of coffee. Likewise, Yeah,

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in fact, you know what, I'm gonna go get another

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cup of coffee and we're gonna take a break. Thank you, Barbara.

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We're gonna be back with more. So stick around. We'll

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Speaker 1: This is Hudson River Radio dot Com.

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Speaker 6: Ah and welcome back, Batman. It's your turn.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I knew that was coming, Barbara.

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Speaker 8: That's gonna be a tough act to follow. That's so

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so cheerful. Mine's a positive.

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Speaker 1: Song, but it's it's just kind of.

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Speaker 8: Smooth in my opinion, it's not quite so bouncy as

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your choice was your choice got everybody moving.

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Speaker 1: I actually remembered it from my childhood, and that's really Yeah.

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When we were given this topic. That's it came to mind.

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Speaker 8: Because when you're younger than I am, how come I

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Speaker 1: Because I watched a lot of old movies.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, anyway, the song I chose is called Lucky

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Man by The Verve. Now Lucky Man not to be

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confused with the song by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, which

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I really really liked that one too. That's definitely not

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a positive song, doesn't well. No, And the Verve not

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to be confused with a different band that I also like,

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called the Verve Pipe right.

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Speaker 6: Anyway.

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Speaker 8: The Verve were an English rock band formed in Wigan,

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which is a city. It sounds like a.

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Speaker 6: Very funny name.

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Speaker 8: Where do you come from?

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Speaker 4: I come from Wigan.

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Speaker 8: It's a city in Greater a town in Greater Manchester

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in England. And the group was active. There must have

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been some stuff going on, because the group was active

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nineteen ninety through nineteen ninety five, nineteen ninety seven to

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nineteen ninety nine, from two thousand and seven to two

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thousand and nine. Obviously I don't know what was going on,

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but I guess there was a lot of interesting stuff

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going full.

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Speaker 1: If that's going to be on the final I'm in

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big trouble, I know, right.

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Speaker 8: So the song I chose is from their third album,

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which was their commercial breakthrough nineteen ninety seven albums, mostly

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just before their second breakup. The album is called Urban

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Hymns hym n S and it's one of the best

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selling albums in UK history. The other singles from that

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album are Bittersweet Sympathy, which I spoke about on this

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show a long, long, long long time ago. But that's

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I recommend Bittersweet Symphony as well. That actually kind of

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sounds like it was made in the sixties, but it wasn't.

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The second single was Drugs Don't Work, which I haven't

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listened to.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'll dispute that perhaps on another show.

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Speaker 8: Depends on your metabolism, because like half the time, I

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don't bother taking something for a headache because it's not

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going to work anyway.

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Speaker 9: I think we were talking about.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but that's that's the only that's.

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Speaker 4: What happens after, you know, like.

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Speaker 8: The next the only experience I have with medications. So

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I'm kind of limited here, So let's have a listen. Oh.

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The reason this is a positive song is because it

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was written by the lead singer Richard Ashcroft, and I

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think it's so sweet because it's about his relationship with

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his wife. So let's have a listen and I'll tell

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you a couple more things.

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Speaker 17: After happeness, Marless, it's just a change me, something.

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Speaker 18: In my liberty, my mind, happiness come in and I'm going.

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Speaker 1: I want you to look with me and.

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Speaker 13: Watch my babe going now just where I.

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Speaker 7: For help me in the car and Stu, I have

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to chill, help me in the child.

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Speaker 14: I'm still after them all the love I has in

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my mind.

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Speaker 3: But I'm a lucky man.

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Speaker 7: The fire my line.

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Speaker 19: After there's something in my own face.

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Speaker 1: I'm studying Nigga smiling.

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Speaker 10: I'm leaning on the screens with you life.

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Speaker 1: I've been this coming outdooring.

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Speaker 7: I watch you do go and watch my beetle going.

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Speaker 14: I know just who I I Then the gone.

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Speaker 3: To stud who have the churn.

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Speaker 11: I'm n to your house do after around all the.

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Speaker 19: Love my albisit my mind. I'm whoop you under space.

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I'm whoop you under space.

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Speaker 14: No no, no go no, got a little go.

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Speaker 13: Happen this r Less, it's sixty ten dire.

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Speaker 19: It's something in my limit and there's gold and I'm

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going I watch you live up and watch.

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Speaker 3: My fable go ahead and lit.

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Speaker 13: My left.

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Speaker 1: It's just a change something in my legs.

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Speaker 20: It's just a genuine thing and my labors, it's just

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a genuineus sound in my.

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Speaker 7: Band.

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Speaker 8: Now, if that song doesn't give you a warm, fuzzy feeling,

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I don't know what would Who on this entire planet,

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possibly the universe, would not want a song like that

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written about them, or sung to them, or just that

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kind of thought expressed to them in some way. I

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think that's just so beautiful and and very warm and fuzzy.

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Speaker 9: I would take any song that was written about me.

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Speaker 1: I know, right, I hear you, actually.

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Speaker 9: Neil, we heard a song that was written about me.

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Speaker 4: I was thinking, yeah, yeah, no, let's.

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Speaker 1: Hmmm, you got some splaining to do?

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Speaker 9: Yeah later, gal, Okay, No, it's fine. As a friend

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of mine who's a musician, who oh, that's so nice.

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So I dated in high school and oh wow, recently

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wrote a song about me?

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Speaker 8: Recently? Oh my goodness, Well I guess I guess he

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hasn't forgotten you.

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Speaker 6: Was it about getting another cup of coffee and a

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piece of pie?

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Speaker 9: It was not, but it was very flattering. Let's put

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it that way.

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Speaker 6: Aw, that's so nice.

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Speaker 8: Oh my goodness, that's so sweet.

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Speaker 9: Anyway, A Lucky Man.

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Speaker 8: Was the Verb's second top twenty hit on the Billboard

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Modern Rock Tracks chart in the US, climbington number sixteen.

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In Canada, Lucky Man topped at number twenty five on

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the RPM one hundred Hit Tracks chart. It also reached

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the top forty in Finland, Iceland, Ireland, and New Zealand.

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So that's not bad, right, Yeah, And.

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Speaker 4: They didn't really, I don't think they. Maybe I'm wrong,

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but they really didn't like make it big here and

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no in the United States. No, it's interesting why they.

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Speaker 8: Bittersweet Symphony got belated airplay here like years after came out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that one I had heard, but again it

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was more recently than Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean this one I only just recently heard

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for the first time, even though it was done in

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nineteen ninety seven. And yes, it's my usual driving to

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or from work, and I heard it on the radio

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and I liked it. So I thought this would make

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a good choice for a positive song.

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Speaker 6: And it was good one and pretty.

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Speaker 4: You're talking to the connoisseur of the obscure here. So

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I'm like, that is true. I give it two thumbs up. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Oh sometimes sometimes, Neil, I am in an unspoken competition

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with you on finding some obscure things. But you have way, way,

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way more musical knowledge than I do.

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Speaker 4: Well, I wouldn't go that far, but well, let's find

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out I don't. I don't even remember my own phone number,

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but I can tell you, you know, the third bass

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player from you know.

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Speaker 6: But you never call yourself, so that makes sense, right, Well,

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that's true too, all right, and if I did, If

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I did, I wouldn't pick up.

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Speaker 8: But I actually call myself. I have a landline hooked

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up to a fax machine for work when I work

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from home.

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Speaker 6: Oh my god, I just had a flashback like it

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was nineteen ninety seven.

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Speaker 8: Yes, and occasionally, but you know why I keep it

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because occasionally I cannot find my cell phone, and I

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call my cell phone from my fax machine so I

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can find it.

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Speaker 1: That's sad, isn't it. No?

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Speaker 4: And we're all kind of sitting here nodding in agreement. Yeah,

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I get that, you know.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, kindosieur, you you have the fluor.

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Speaker 4: This was a tough one. I mean This was a

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very tough topic to I mean, let's we live in

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very we live in troubled times, so it's it's really

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kind of hard to be optimistic.

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Speaker 6: That's why we took the mission on to cheer people.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and so I had to, you know, reach deep

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inside myself for something really optimistic. So I came up

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with the song Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. OK.

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I like that the joke, folks, it's a joke. No,

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it's a joke.

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Speaker 9: Is it a happy song? Because we all shouldn't fear

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death and just go forward and live a life.

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Speaker 4: I couldn't think of anything more, you know, you know, depressing. Yeah, anyway, No,

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this is the truth. My song of optimism for today

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is called Dancing in My Mind and it was written, performed, produced,

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and recorded by Ben Vaughan around twenty twenty two. I

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didn't get the date exactly, wasn't available, but it was

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released then on relay Shack Records. Now Ben Vaughan. He

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was born and raised in a small New Jersey town

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just on the other side of the border from Philadelphia.

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Again sometime around nineteen fifty five, nothing specific here, fifty

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five fifty six something like that. But when he was

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sixty years old, his uncle gave him a record by

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guitarist Dwayne Eddie, known as the King of Twang because

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of his signature guitar tone on all this instrumental hit records,

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and apparently that changed Vaughan's life forever, which is interesting

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because most kids around that time would say that the

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Beatles' arrival and in appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show

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was the catalyst for their love of rock and roll

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because Dwayne Eddies hits or pre Beatle. He was in

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the early sixties and the Beatles were like sixty four

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at least over here anyway. He started out playing drums

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in a garage band when he was twelve, but switched

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over to the guitar smart kid now after school he

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would go down to the local department store to practice

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borrowing air quotes the guitars that were up on the

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rack and using their chord sheets to learn how to play,

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which is actually not that uncommon, you know, going to

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the music store and said, oh, I'd like to try

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out your guitars here and sit there and you know,

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play them for free. Fast forward, he formed the Ben

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Vaughan Combo in nineteen eighty three, and the band released

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two albums. For about five years, the band toured the

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US several times. They received rave reviews in Rolling Stone

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and People magazines, and got video airplay on MTV as well. Now,

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in nineteen eighty eight, and this is about when I

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first heard of him on college radio. At the time,

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I think it was Wnyu out of New York. Nineteen

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eighty eight, he began a solo career. He recorded several

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critically acclaimed LPs, toured extensively in Europe and the US,

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got even more MTV exposure, and was asked to produce

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three albums for other artists by Elektra Records, which is

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not too shabby. In nineteen ninety five, after moving to California,

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a guest appearance on an LA Radidio show led to

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him being hired as the composer for the hit TV

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sitcom Third Rock from the Sun, and for the next

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ten years, Vaughan would write music for many other TV

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shows as well, including that seventy.

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Speaker 6: Show Huh Cool.

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Speaker 4: He also composed scores for several films around that time,

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including that The Campy Psycho Beach Party, which is personal

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favorite of mine, and continued working as a record producer.

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Now I came upon this song Dancing my Mind fairly recently.

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As I mentioned, it came out in twenty twenty two.

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I heard it sometime last year, but twenty twenty two

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that was right in the middle of the pandemic, the

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lockdown and the isolation that we were all kind of

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going through. Now, to me, the message is that even

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though things may seem bleak and you feel all alone,

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you can somehow reach inside yourself and find that happy

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place if you will, for solace and possibly salvation while

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waiting for better days to come.

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Speaker 7: So let's do it.

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Speaker 10: Let's dances.

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Speaker 7: The dance sings again my mind. I come to five

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pcson mine.

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Speaker 3: Went on the dance season in my mind, I am

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at twine to feel a fine.

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Speaker 7: Went on the dance six again my mind.

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Speaker 16: The world is because I haven't had an in by

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time and went out on the dance sixing In my mind,

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I see signs a bet amount of times when the dances.

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Speaker 3: Friday night and the moon.

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Speaker 7: Again cut out again. It was in my mind I

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see city lights in air music in the.

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Speaker 16: Okay Saturdays just an thirday till night time comes.

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Speaker 7: It's goin try and high in the sky and.

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Speaker 13: Dance sing lune.

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Speaker 7: I come to the fin piece of mine, went on

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and dance sing again my mind. I am at fly

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a feeling mine.

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Speaker 3: Went on a dance singing in l.

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Speaker 7: There is no time, and what is behind?

474
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,519
Speaker 3: Went on the dances and.

475
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 7: In loud, no need to to find your dad. Ride

476
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:27,960
was my.

477
00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:51,119
Speaker 13: Dance, dance.

478
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 3: As kind of dance singing in my mother.

479
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 7: I come to his fine peace of mind. Went I'm

480
00:34:16,039 --> 00:34:17,880
and dance singing in where I'm mind.

481
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 3: I am at clom the feeling fine. When I'm dam

482
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,280
singing in my mind.

483
00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 7: The world is kind of and I'm in my prime.

484
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,679
Speaker 3: Went on dance singing in my mind.

485
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 7: There is no time, and love is blind window and dance.

486
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:39,199
Speaker 3: Singing in my mind only.

487
00:34:39,039 --> 00:34:41,079
Speaker 7: We think the less two minutes of dine.

488
00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 3: When I'm dance singing in my mind.

489
00:34:45,039 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 7: Firstly saye gros merry.

490
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 3: At the time. Yes, I'm dance singing in my mind,

491
00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:56,280
dance singing in my mind.

492
00:35:19,199 --> 00:35:25,559
Speaker 4: From the ridiculous to the sublime. Parsley sage Rosemary in

493
00:35:25,679 --> 00:35:29,639
time now, how can you? That's like the best lyric

494
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:30,320
I've ever.

495
00:35:31,679 --> 00:35:34,159
Speaker 6: It's like a head bopping mellow.

496
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's low key, but it's like, you

497
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,880
know what, you know, you just make yourself happy. You know,

498
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,159
had a very dreamy quality. It's kind of like a

499
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:50,400
cosmic roller rink.

500
00:35:51,559 --> 00:35:51,760
Speaker 10: Yeah.

501
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 4: Well, anyway, this is a great story, and in nineteen

502
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:05,000
ninety seven, Vaughan released an album that was recorded entirely

503
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:10,000
in his car in the driveway of his home. He

504
00:36:10,199 --> 00:36:14,360
converted his car into a recording studio. He turned he

505
00:36:14,519 --> 00:36:18,639
turned his nineteen sixty five Rambler into a makeshift recording studio.

506
00:36:19,519 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: I'm doing life wrong. I'm so doing life wrong.

507
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 8: It doesn't get much better than that.

508
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,119
Speaker 4: On the album, you know, you listed all the equipment

509
00:36:28,199 --> 00:36:30,880
or the different microphones, et cetera. He also listed two

510
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,559
quarts of Quaker State oil. Love it, I love it

511
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:40,480
brilliant really right now. This album and the accompanying short film,

512
00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:44,320
which I've not seen, is considered by many to be

513
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,800
a testament to a man and his dream. So you

514
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,719
got a dream, you gotta be optimistic now. Vaughan also

515
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,000
hosts his own syndicated radio show called The Many Moods

516
00:36:56,119 --> 00:36:59,800
of Ben Vaughan, but in his spare time, he still

517
00:37:00,079 --> 00:37:04,320
forms live across the US and Europe. So there you

518
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:08,840
have it, folks, let's dance be optimistic.

519
00:37:09,039 --> 00:37:11,679
Speaker 8: Great, we should we should make a station trip to

520
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:12,519
go see him.

521
00:37:14,159 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, down, we could do that.

522
00:37:17,679 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 4: Now that that that song is not I mean he's

523
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,679
I've heard other things and they are not exactly like

524
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,119
that song. It was kind of out of character, so

525
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:32,039
to speak. Huh, from the other things I've heard, and so, yeah,

526
00:37:32,079 --> 00:37:34,719
he does have many moods. He's I think he's very cool.

527
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,559
Speaker 6: I would think, you know, writing for the seventies show,

528
00:37:36,599 --> 00:37:39,719
like you said, it would be more upbeat regel. He's

529
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,400
sounding kind of yeah, like rock riff, heavy kind of things.

530
00:37:44,519 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 4: Anybody comes up with the idea to make his sixty

531
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,079
five rambler into a recording studio.

532
00:37:51,679 --> 00:37:54,639
Speaker 9: Anybody that writes music from for a third five from this?

533
00:37:54,679 --> 00:37:58,199
Speaker 1: Oh god, I love the theme to that show so good.

534
00:37:58,280 --> 00:37:59,480
That music was so cool.

535
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,199
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, all right, good one, Neil, thank you. So

536
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,239
we had the other cup of coffee on the first break,

537
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:07,719
and now.

538
00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:10,039
Speaker 9: We're going to run to the bat.

539
00:38:11,559 --> 00:38:13,519
Speaker 6: On the second break, and we'll be back with two

540
00:38:13,599 --> 00:38:15,719
more happinesses. So stick around.

541
00:38:16,559 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 21: Legend Riverradio dot com, Hudson Riverradio dot com.

542
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 6: And We're back, Mercedes, share your happiness us bring it.

543
00:38:34,159 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 9: I'm I'm very happy today and I'm so happy that

544
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,119
we're doing this topic good. I mean, I think we

545
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:45,519
all need this right now, Yes, especially after our topic

546
00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:48,119
last week, which I am still recovering from.

547
00:38:49,079 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 1: Sorry.

548
00:38:49,599 --> 00:38:54,199
Speaker 9: Sorry, really great pics, but damn really dark.

549
00:38:54,559 --> 00:38:54,760
Speaker 3: Yeah.

550
00:38:56,159 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 9: So, a musician friend of mine often post lists of

551
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,880
the top thirties hit from certain days, and I have

552
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,960
to thank him because as soon as I saw it,

553
00:39:04,159 --> 00:39:07,440
I knew what song I was picking for the show. Incidentally,

554
00:39:07,599 --> 00:39:11,280
the one he posted was from w k n R

555
00:39:11,639 --> 00:39:15,760
Detroit from March thirty first, nineteen seventy, and the song

556
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,400
I picked was number twenty seven at that time. The

557
00:39:19,519 --> 00:39:23,119
song is united We stand by the Brotherhood of Man.

558
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,679
Oh Wow, And just by the title and the name

559
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,320
of the group, it's pretty clear it's going to be optimistic.

560
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,599
The song was written by Tony Hiller and Peter Simons.

561
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,320
Peter Simons actually was involved in many musical endeavors and

562
00:39:37,519 --> 00:39:40,800
used five different names during the sixties and seventies. He

563
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,719
used Johnny B. Great as a solo artist, John Goodison

564
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,360
his real name, as a member of Brother's Brotherhood of

565
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,760
Man Big John as a member of Big John's Rock

566
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:57,039
and Roll Circus and Peter Simons Simmons Simon's I'm Not

567
00:39:57,159 --> 00:40:02,000
Sure as a songwriter. The song was released in nineteen

568
00:40:02,079 --> 00:40:08,800
seventy with members Got Goodison, Tony Burrows, Roger Greenaway, Sue

569
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:15,119
Glover and Glover, I guess and Sonny Leslie. Tony Burrows,

570
00:40:15,159 --> 00:40:18,880
who was unique and that he had three major hits

571
00:40:19,079 --> 00:40:22,679
in three different bands in this same period of time.

572
00:40:24,519 --> 00:40:28,000
Love Grows where my Rosemary goes. Oh, I remember tho Oh,

573
00:40:28,039 --> 00:40:31,800
I love that song, Love that song, My baby loves Love?

574
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,320
And do you remember that one? Of course, okay and

575
00:40:36,599 --> 00:40:41,320
united we stand making musical history. This song became the

576
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,199
band's first hit, peaking at number thirteen in the US.

577
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,639
It spent fifteen weeks on the charts and is ranked

578
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:52,280
as the sixty fourth biggest US hit of nineteen seventy,

579
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,599
which doesn't sound like a huge acclaim to me.

580
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you make your category narrow enough, everybody's a

581
00:40:58,320 --> 00:40:58,920
record holder.

582
00:41:02,559 --> 00:41:05,519
Speaker 9: Brotherhood of Man was a British pop quartet formed by

583
00:41:05,639 --> 00:41:09,079
Tony Hiller in nineteen sixty nine. They had various members

584
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:13,039
until nineteen seventy two, when Hiller got together a trio

585
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:17,559
of session singers Martin Lee, Nikki Stevens, and Lee Sheridan

586
00:41:17,639 --> 00:41:20,039
to form the band with completely new members in that

587
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:26,599
stock sort of Tony is quoted as saying, the inspiration

588
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:30,199
for the song was definitely in the title United We Stand.

589
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,000
It was during the time of Flower Power, the Vietnam War,

590
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:38,039
the founding of lots of movements, including gay liberation and

591
00:41:38,159 --> 00:41:41,400
civil rights. It was in fact immediately taken up and

592
00:41:41,599 --> 00:41:44,119
used by the as a rallying call for the US

593
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:47,960
Democratic Party presidential campaign. And no, I don't know which

594
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,719
one I should have looked it up. Over the years,

595
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,599
the United We Stand has been recorded by upwards of

596
00:41:54,639 --> 00:41:57,960
one hundred and fifty artists worldwide. So you can see

597
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,360
that something that started out as a pure love song

598
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,920
went on to become an important anthem of our time

599
00:42:04,599 --> 00:42:07,599
times and helped so many people to heal their pain

600
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:11,400
and suffering after the nine to eleven attacks. This is

601
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,199
the Brotherhood of Man's song, which I am most proud of.

602
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:20,440
I think that's really cool. So Regg Dwight aka wait

603
00:42:20,559 --> 00:42:27,320
what Rege Dwight Yeah aka Elton John worked as an

604
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,679
office boy in Mills Music, where Tony Hiller worked, and

605
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,119
because Hiller knew Elton John could sing, he asked him

606
00:42:34,199 --> 00:42:37,960
to record the demo, which I could not find me anywhere.

607
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:43,440
So let's take listening. Hopefully it will feel optimistic to you.

608
00:42:46,039 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 5: There's nowhere in the world. Then I would weathery then

609
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:59,320
worthy you my love, and there's nothing in the world.

610
00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: And I would rather see than your smile out.

611
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 22: Of you or you not aystad devid ever reform and

612
00:43:15,679 --> 00:43:37,320
in my accent, not a restand devid a reform.

613
00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:39,519
Speaker 10: In my.

614
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 13: So gas.

615
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 3: Lift the word around you, well the pad, then.

616
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 13: I'll still be.

617
00:44:08,159 --> 00:44:12,199
Speaker 1: Every stone gets too ball a long way.

618
00:44:13,599 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 23: Just you call out men stand in every ball.

619
00:44:25,679 --> 00:44:43,159
Speaker 24: And if my ma have a beer gets a lone

620
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:53,159
sadly ball, my action a beer gets along.

621
00:44:53,880 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 9: Remain though, although it's about a couple who vowed to

622
00:45:20,519 --> 00:45:23,559
stand together in the face of whatever challenges they encounter,

623
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,199
it wound up being It wound up taking on a

624
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:31,760
political tone. The opponents of the Vietnam War sometimes appropriated it.

625
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:35,199
After the attacks of the Twin Towers on September eleventh,

626
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,119
it made a big comeback as a national unity theme

627
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,000
in the United States. The song was also adapted as

628
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,400
an anthem by the Gay Liberation Front. When the group

629
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,880
performed this on the BBC music show Top of the Pops,

630
00:45:49,079 --> 00:45:53,159
a pre famous Elton John appeared as a backing singer

631
00:45:53,679 --> 00:45:59,360
Nice I think is great. After the Brady Budge TV

632
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,880
show did in nineteen seventy four, the fictional family got

633
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,000
their own Friday show in nineteen seventy six called The

634
00:46:06,079 --> 00:46:09,760
Brady Bunch Hour, which lasted one season.

635
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:14,639
Speaker 4: Which may have been a little much wow, That's why

636
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:15,960
I missed it, I guess wow.

637
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,639
Speaker 9: But at the end of each episode they sang united

638
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:24,119
we stand. It's very cool, and the Muppets sang this

639
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:29,199
with guest star Lola Falana on Oh wown episode of

640
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:33,800
the Muppets. And I just want to add that. On

641
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,880
the Silver Screen podcast, we recently did a show on

642
00:46:37,119 --> 00:46:41,079
optimistic movies and songs, and I'd just like to list

643
00:46:41,119 --> 00:46:42,800
a couple of the songs that we did do.

644
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:44,760
Speaker 1: It was a great show.

645
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:49,639
Speaker 9: Thank You, Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles, Let's

646
00:46:49,679 --> 00:46:52,800
Get Together by the Young Bloods I Can See Clearly

647
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,159
Now by Johnny Nash. We also did are You Having

648
00:46:56,199 --> 00:47:00,159
Any Fun? By Elaine Stretch and Happy and Peppy. I'm

649
00:47:00,199 --> 00:47:01,519
the couple of people.

650
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: That was my favorite.

651
00:47:05,559 --> 00:47:08,639
Speaker 9: So please feel free to listen to the silver Screen

652
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:12,440
on Hudson River Radio dot com or wherever for the

653
00:47:12,559 --> 00:47:17,119
discussions and for the movies that came along with those excellent.

654
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 6: All right, that's a good one.

655
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:26,199
Speaker 9: Oh my goodness, I had forgotten all about that song.

656
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:32,320
He posted that about four days ago and I went, boom, nice.

657
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:35,679
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, it's funny you picked this one because I

658
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:39,480
had a whole other thing written up, different song, different

659
00:47:39,599 --> 00:47:42,480
artists than what I'm doing. And then I was setting

660
00:47:42,559 --> 00:47:46,519
up the playlist and I heard Mercedes song and I'm like, oh,

661
00:47:46,559 --> 00:47:50,400
I remember this, and I'm like, this sounds familiar, like

662
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,079
in addition, is something other than the song. And I'm like,

663
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:57,199
all right, another song, Rip this off. This is really familiar.

664
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,440
And then I realized what it was, and it happened

665
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:04,639
to be another charitable, slash optimistic kind of song. I'm like, Okay,

666
00:48:05,159 --> 00:48:08,239
So I was up late last night totally redoing everything,

667
00:48:09,119 --> 00:48:11,320
and I took it in a different direction. And my

668
00:48:11,639 --> 00:48:15,239
prior pick is in the archives for whenever that'll fit

669
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:19,400
into another topic that we do. So you guys all

670
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,280
remember we are the World nineteen eighty five. I don't

671
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,519
think we need to go too deep into that. The

672
00:48:24,679 --> 00:48:28,239
organization that put that together is called USA for Africa,

673
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:31,880
which was United Support of Artists for Africa and not

674
00:48:32,119 --> 00:48:35,960
United States of America, a little factory that nobody cares about.

675
00:48:36,159 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 9: True, Yeah, did know that?

676
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 24: No?

677
00:48:38,559 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. No.

678
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 4: No.

679
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 6: The event itself when they recorded We Are the World,

680
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,639
where you know, they got everybody together for that one night.

681
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:53,559
That was spearheaded by Ken Craigan. Craigan was an agent

682
00:48:53,679 --> 00:48:56,559
and a manager to a whole bunch of a list celebrities,

683
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,440
and he also volunteered at a bunch of not for profits.

684
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,199
He did a ton to charity work. He passed away

685
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,239
in twenty twenty one at age eighty five.

686
00:49:04,679 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 9: Seems like it was he it William Mars.

687
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 6: I don't know, good question, I don't know. But from

688
00:49:11,559 --> 00:49:14,280
everything that I was able to find about him, actually

689
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,400
seemed like even though he was in show business, he

690
00:49:16,519 --> 00:49:18,480
was like a stand up kind of guy. From what

691
00:49:18,559 --> 00:49:21,599
I could tell, I don't know where he worked. I

692
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,559
would imagine he bounced around to different places.

693
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:25,559
Speaker 9: And probably think he was there.

694
00:49:26,599 --> 00:49:31,559
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, cool, okay, small world. So after the

695
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,039
incredibly huge success of We Are the World, which raised

696
00:49:35,079 --> 00:49:38,920
money for hunger in Africa. He said that the next

697
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,480
logical step was to raise money for the hungry here

698
00:49:41,559 --> 00:49:44,679
in the United States. So he organized an event called

699
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,920
Hands Across America. I don't know if you guys remember this, Yes,

700
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,599
all right, people across the country were supposed to line

701
00:49:52,679 --> 00:49:57,199
up and hold hands, stretching from coast to coast before

702
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,639
COVID because now the ideas grow, so I'm not doing it.

703
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:06,159
On October twenty second, nineteen eighty five, they announced the

704
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,639
upcoming event at a press conference that featured Bill Cosby,

705
00:50:11,199 --> 00:50:16,760
No problem there, Pete Rose, no real problem there, and

706
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:25,440
Kenny Rogers with his original face. Coca Cola was the

707
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,679
main sponsor of the event, and they kicked in around

708
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,679
eighteen point eight million dollars to cover the operation. Other

709
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,440
companies kicked in as well. The idea was that participants

710
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:40,519
were supposed to register and pay a ten dollars fee donation,

711
00:50:41,599 --> 00:50:43,119
but of course, on the day of the event, a

712
00:50:43,159 --> 00:50:44,679
lot of people just showed up and they hopped in

713
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:48,800
line and they didn't stop anybody from participating. Celebrities could

714
00:50:49,119 --> 00:50:52,800
buy a mile for thirteen two hundred dollars because it

715
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,760
was estimated that it would take thirteen hundred and twenty

716
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:59,400
people to stretch out over a mile holding hands together.

717
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,239
Prince was supposedly the first one to pony up the

718
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,960
dough to buy a mile, so that's all to him.

719
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,480
The actual event took place on Sunday, May twenty fifth,

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00:51:10,679 --> 00:51:14,559
nineteen eighty five, the day before Memorial Day. There was

721
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:18,800
a nationwide simulcast on radio station starting at three pm Eastern,

722
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,480
where they played I Want to Hold Your Hand by

723
00:51:21,519 --> 00:51:25,079
the Beatles. They played Dancing in the Street because everybody's

724
00:51:25,079 --> 00:51:27,360
lined up on the street and this land is your land.

725
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,599
Has a little bit of patriotism there, And there was

726
00:51:30,679 --> 00:51:33,679
a song written for the event as well, called Hands

727
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:37,920
Across America. It was sung by Joe Sarasano and I

728
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:42,039
hope I'm saying that right. He had success in some bands,

729
00:51:42,119 --> 00:51:45,320
but he's actually best known for singing commercials TV commercials.

730
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:50,239
He sang for Coke, for ge, for Miller Beer. He

731
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:54,960
sang commercials for both army and navy recruitment, So if

732
00:51:55,039 --> 00:51:57,519
you go back and check out some of those old commercials,

733
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:03,320
you'll recognize his voice. And second was also Sandra Farina,

734
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,960
who had a role in the Sergeant Pepper film. She

735
00:52:06,119 --> 00:52:08,719
sings the female part in the song She Passed Away

736
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:12,679
in twenty twenty three. The music for the song was

737
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,800
played by the band Toto, who had done lots of

738
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,159
studio work from the seventies and eighties and all that,

739
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,000
so pretty big names. On the day of the event,

740
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:26,280
the radio stations played those three songs, and then everybody

741
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,639
sang we Are the World, because that's what you did

742
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:32,440
back then, and then they sang this song. The whole

743
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:36,880
event lasted a whopping fifteen minutes. It did not stretch

744
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,719
from coast to coast because for some reason, people didn't

745
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,639
want to drive out to the desert in the middle

746
00:52:41,639 --> 00:52:44,280
of nowhere and stand out in the blazing sun holding

747
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,880
hands with the strangers and pay ten bucks to do it.

748
00:52:47,519 --> 00:52:50,000
So they kind of filled it in with like paper

749
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,199
chains and other things to try to kind of fill

750
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:53,760
the gaps there.

751
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:55,559
Speaker 9: You were going to say, cutouts of people.

752
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 6: Maybe they did.

753
00:52:57,159 --> 00:52:57,199
Speaker 24: That.

754
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,599
Speaker 6: Just seems like a lot of work for a fifteen

755
00:52:59,599 --> 00:53:04,400
minute of ev you know. Yeah. So in the end,

756
00:53:04,519 --> 00:53:07,679
they raised about fifteen million dollars to fight hunger here

757
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,880
in the US, which was distributed to local charities to

758
00:53:11,159 --> 00:53:14,960
help feed the hungry. Now they raised fifteen million. Do

759
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,840
you remember the figure that Coca Cola kicked.

760
00:53:17,639 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 4: In I was gonna say, yes, Coca Cola.

761
00:53:22,079 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 6: Kicked in eighteen point eight million dollars. Yeah, so they

762
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,679
would have been better off if Coke just donated money

763
00:53:28,679 --> 00:53:29,800
straight and nobody helped me.

764
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 4: Hands that was going through him as I'm not going

765
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:33,679
to say anything to you.

766
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 7: Yeah.

767
00:53:35,199 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 6: No, they did not raise as much money as they

768
00:53:38,159 --> 00:53:40,519
had hoped too. People just kind of showed up and

769
00:53:40,599 --> 00:53:44,239
held hands without kicking in their ten.

770
00:53:44,159 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 9: Bucks, so without doing any good. Yeah, exactly, you got

771
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,519
to held hands with your neighbor, I guess.

772
00:53:50,679 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 6: And how many people got sick from that?

773
00:53:52,519 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 3: Who knows?

774
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:55,039
Speaker 6: It's crazy.

775
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,519
Speaker 8: So terms were different back then.

776
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:02,760
Speaker 6: Sure were the old days, the olden day germs.

777
00:54:03,039 --> 00:54:04,760
Speaker 4: It wasn't that long.

778
00:54:04,559 --> 00:54:07,280
Speaker 9: Ago, really, communities.

779
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,719
Speaker 6: All right, well if uh yeah, I don't know. You

780
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,719
know what, there was such widespread antibiotic use that now

781
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,679
you have the back to you know, the antibiotic resistant everything.

782
00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:23,039
So it's we're probably worse off than we were back then.

783
00:54:23,079 --> 00:54:27,000
Who knows, I don't know. So this song was released

784
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,760
as a single. It peaked at number sixty five, which

785
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,639
really isn't bad. So it's I don't know. I was

786
00:54:34,679 --> 00:54:38,559
an eighties kid. I was eleven ish when this came out.

787
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:42,119
You know, I listened to it again. The first time

788
00:54:42,159 --> 00:54:44,440
you hear it, it's like cheesy eighties. The second time

789
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,039
it's like you pay attention to the lyrics and you're

790
00:54:47,079 --> 00:54:49,199
like all right, And the third time you're like, okay,

791
00:54:49,679 --> 00:54:52,599
this is kind of you know, maybe legit. I don't know.

792
00:54:53,199 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 9: Are you're going to play it three times?

793
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:56,679
Speaker 6: For I will not play it three times. It's up

794
00:54:56,679 --> 00:54:58,599
to you to back up the show and play it

795
00:54:58,679 --> 00:54:59,199
three times.

796
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 8: But much rejoicing.

797
00:55:01,199 --> 00:55:03,519
Speaker 6: But you are going to hear pops and crackles on

798
00:55:03,639 --> 00:55:06,639
this because this is the original forty five that I

799
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:11,800
bought when I was eleven. Good, Oh, we're going back

800
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:15,920
to the original source God a relic, Yes me or

801
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:24,360
the record got a museum piece and across America by USA.

802
00:55:24,159 --> 00:55:25,039
Speaker 4: For Africa.

803
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 11: Spelled the keys dreams smells so sweet, it's.

804
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 7: Crerd So.

805
00:56:00,119 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 13: That man over there, he's my brother.

806
00:56:05,679 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 14: When you hear last time, when you hear cries, when

807
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:15,440
he needs me, I'll be right there back.

808
00:56:15,559 --> 00:56:20,679
Speaker 3: Sound the pass.

809
00:56:30,119 --> 00:56:45,119
Speaker 15: Deeps on, said the father and father doesn't Father's.

810
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 3: Unsaid sons John isn't son.

811
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:49,559
Speaker 13: With being.

812
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 3: Together as one?

813
00:56:53,519 --> 00:57:01,159
Speaker 13: And I can't we'll bacon can it again? A stranger

814
00:57:02,519 --> 00:57:04,320
people saying as a bland.

815
00:57:05,559 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 7: So people start to love peach O.

816
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:18,079
Speaker 13: See those people over there and my sister randfather when

817
00:57:18,199 --> 00:57:24,719
they laugh and when they crap, and when they need

818
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:56,960
me and tell me what the sis we are?

819
00:57:57,159 --> 00:57:58,079
Speaker 10: The river.

820
00:58:00,119 --> 00:58:01,679
Speaker 13: Can rise to the.

821
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:02,719
Speaker 3: Valley of.

822
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:21,039
Speaker 14: Lady who signed signs all say welcome. We must not

823
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:30,280
tasso see that man o man, he's my brother.

824
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:43,519
Speaker 13: But when he froms when he needs me not be away. Listen.

825
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:00,719
Speaker 6: So I think you can hear the similarities with Mercedes

826
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:04,360
sung in this one, which that's why I'm surprised I

827
01:00:04,679 --> 01:00:05,199
remember this.

828
01:00:06,079 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 9: So yeah, we all forgot about that, right.

829
01:00:09,679 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, not only the vibe, but it does have the

830
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,599
same feel to it, you know, the united the yeah,

831
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:16,920
the big chorus, the big you know.

832
01:00:17,199 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 7: Yeah.

833
01:00:17,599 --> 01:00:22,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, So millions millions of people singing together holding hands.

834
01:00:22,159 --> 01:00:24,079
Speaker 6: That's why I popped into my head and I went,

835
01:00:24,239 --> 01:00:25,960
I have this in the basement and I have to.

836
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,000
Speaker 9: Go on the record.

837
01:00:28,519 --> 01:00:28,719
Speaker 7: Yeah.

838
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:32,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, So you're sitting there with an actual turntable and

839
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:33,360
you spun that record.

840
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:36,239
Speaker 6: There's a turntable of it. Well, if you want to

841
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:38,960
pull the curtain back, Barbara, I digitized it before the show,

842
01:00:39,079 --> 01:00:41,000
but yes, I have the actual record.

843
01:00:41,679 --> 01:00:43,079
Speaker 1: Oh I was hoping you just say yes.

844
01:00:43,199 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 6: But okay, I can go. If you want me to pause,

845
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:47,360
I'll go to the basement dig it back out again.

846
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:51,480
But it's okay, all right, So there you go. You

847
01:00:51,559 --> 01:00:54,119
guys were talking about something else.

848
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,519
Speaker 4: Related to this that I didn't know about it anytime,

849
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:00,119
and Across your Face.

850
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 9: Which was a Ramones's shirt that I got at the

851
01:01:07,599 --> 01:01:10,119
time because I was working at Sire and I think

852
01:01:10,159 --> 01:01:13,119
it came out right after. I think they distributed the shirt.

853
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,039
I don't know if they sold it to people.

854
01:01:15,199 --> 01:01:18,239
Speaker 4: That was it. I just remember it, you know, I

855
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:20,239
don't remember why or what they did with it, but

856
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:23,480
that was their That was their sarcastic or whatever response

857
01:01:23,519 --> 01:01:26,719
to Hands across America. They said, hands across your Face

858
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:28,960
and it was a T shirt and I think there's

859
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:31,480
a photo of Johnny Ramone wearing it, you know, while

860
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:34,320
they were playing. But it, you know, it didn't get

861
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:38,159
as much traction as Hands Across America.

862
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:39,960
Speaker 9: But no, but it's hilarious.

863
01:01:40,159 --> 01:01:44,239
Speaker 4: But I thought it was. Yeah, I appreciated the their

864
01:01:44,360 --> 01:01:45,119
brand of humor.

865
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:51,119
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely absolutely that they were. The T shirt is

866
01:01:51,159 --> 01:01:55,519
a face with people across the face.

867
01:01:57,280 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: Holding hands, holding hands, holding hands.

868
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:04,719
Speaker 6: That's great, all right, So is everybody cheered up compared

869
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:06,920
to last week? A happy note?

870
01:02:07,039 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 4: Oh yes, all right?

871
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:08,559
Speaker 1: Good.

872
01:02:08,719 --> 01:02:11,079
Speaker 6: Then that means it's time to pull the plug before

873
01:02:11,199 --> 01:02:12,000
something goes wrong.

874
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 4: We don't want to get too happy.

875
01:02:15,119 --> 01:02:17,719
Speaker 6: I know, we don't want to overdo it. So excellent

876
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:20,519
choice is crambones. Thank you for being here tonight, and

877
01:02:20,639 --> 01:02:22,199
thank you all for joining us here for the Rock

878
01:02:22,239 --> 01:02:24,760
and Roll History Show. Don't forget to subscribe in your

879
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,199
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01:02:27,239 --> 01:02:29,719
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881
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:32,519
for everybody. I don't know what we're doing next week,

882
01:02:32,559 --> 01:02:35,239
but we're going to do something in between happy and sad,

883
01:02:35,519 --> 01:02:37,920
somewhere on that spectrum. We'll figure it out as we

884
01:02:38,039 --> 01:02:40,199
go along. Till then, have a great weekend. We'll see

885
01:02:40,199 --> 01:02:46,840
you next week. Everybody, Peace out, A rock cop bottomed cram.

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